Here's my latest effort with Auria. The strings come from GarageBand; the piano from iGrand, and the drums from The Loop Loft. The electric guitars and bass are direct into THM. I did some final "mastering" in the AudioMastering app, and uploaded to SoundCloud via AudioShare. O yea, I also converted stereo tracks from GarageBand and iGrand to mono in Hokusai. Thanks for listening.

This is the first track I’ve written since selling my Elektron gear and buying a nice acoustic guitar. Don’t worry though, this is definitely not country music! A bit happier and more playful than my usual downtempo tracks, still lots of interesting twists to keep your ears on their toes. Err… something like that.

Recorded in Auria on an iPad Air, drums are a combination of Beatmaker2 and Alchemy Mobile, the few synth sounds in this track are from Alchemy or Nave. Most of the instrumental sounds are actually my Taylor 814ce acoustic guitar processed with a Boss TeraEcho pedal, or the effects and time-stretching in Auria.

Hopefully this marks a new direction for my music making, looking forward to seeing where this takes me next!

With my drummer ears on, I wondered whether boosting the higher frequencies around the snare and adding a bit more reverb around the snare hits may be good. Would make for a different type of sound, so may not be what you're looking for.

I'm new to the Auria boards, but have been lurking for quite some time. I wanted to share a Christmas song with you guys, recorded, mixed, and mastered in Auria. There's a list of apps and hardware used on the SoundCloud page. Hope you enjoy it!